William Shakespeare Quotes

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698 Quotes Revealing Timeless Wisdom on Love, Trust, and Human Nature

“Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace!
And, lips, oh you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death!”

“For you, in my respect, are all the world.
Then how can it be said I am alone
When all the world is here to look on me?”

“For it falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost,
Why, then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us
While it was ours.”

“We burn daylight.”

“Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.”

“Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.”

“I must be gone and live, or stay and die.”

“If there is a good will, there is great way.”

“Take pains. Be perfect.”

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”

“For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.”

“Give me my sin again.”

“I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends”

“O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circle orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”

“My Crown is in my heart, not on my head:
Not deck'd with Diamonds, and Indian stones:
Nor to be seen: my Crown is call'd Content,
A Crown it is, that seldom Kings enjoy.”

“Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile,
And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart,
And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,
And frame my face for all occasions”

“Give thy thoughts no tongue.”

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

“Go girl, seek happy nights to happy days”

“All is fair in love and war”

“Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.”

“thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.”

“The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.”

“Madam, you have bereft me of all words,
Only my blood speaks to you in my veins”

“You must take your chance.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”

“That deep torture may be called a hell,
When more is felt than one hath power to tell.”

“Nothing is really good or bad in itself — it’s all what a person thinks about it.”

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”

“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

“If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.”

“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”

“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”

“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”

“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Which, as they kiss, consume”

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“thus with a kiss I die”

“Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”

“To die, to sleep -
To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,
For in this sleep of death what dreams may come…”

“All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”

“Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.”

“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”

“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”

“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”

“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”